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Who would fall for that?
Obviously, Erik is the dumbest castaway in the history of Survivor. That’s been established beyond any question or doubt. But who can doubt that Cirie is the smartest? She’s the one who came up with the idea for Natalie to talk Erik into giving her the Immunity Necklace. Cirie is also the one who came up with the bait: that if he gives up the necklace, they would agree to vote out Amanda. She also came up with the plan for Amanda and Parvati to be the ones to attack Erik at Tribal Council, to “push him over the edge.” And she’s the one who closed the deal with Erik by letting him know that his giving Natalie the necklace would cue her that the plan was in motion. And she had no problem switching from Amanda as the proposed target to Parvati, because of Erik’s concerns about the hidden idol. “At this point,” she said, “I’ll agree to anything.” And then (as if that weren’t enough), she was so smooth at Tribal Council, declaring that redemption was important, that Erik didn’t even know he was being greased up for the slaughter.

There’s not much more to be said that isn’t obvious to everyone in the world (including Erik, now, after the fact and way too late). The jury knew as soon as Erik started talking at Tribal Council that he was being worked over, and that he was going to be stupid enough to fall for the most blatant ploy since... well, since two weeks ago, when they worked over Jason, or the week before, when they did it to Ozzy. (I can’t put the blindside of Alexis last week in the same category, but they actually have done something pretty spectacular at four Tribal Councils in a row.)

Now I have to hope that Cirie makes it to the jury and gets the credit for what she’s done. I watched that Tribal Council a second time and laughed just as hard as the first. For that alone, Cirie deserves the million dollars.

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